Your Proud Provider of NeuroVisual Medicine
At Beyond Vision LNK, we proudly offer NeuroVisual Medicine—a specialized approach designed to address the often-overlooked symptoms of binocular vision dysfunction.
Whether you’re a child struggling with reading, an adult dealing with headaches and visual fatigue, or an athlete seeking sharper visual performance, NeuroVisual Medicine offers a path toward clearer, more comfortable, and more efficient vision.
Experience the life-changing benefits of a treatment that targets the root cause—not just the symptoms. Discover how NeuroVisual Medicine at Beyond Vision LNK can help you see—and live—better.
What Is NeuroVisual Medicine?
NeuroVisual Medicine is a specialized area of optometry focused on diagnosing and treating binocular vision dysfunction (BVD), a condition that can affect your eye alignment.
NeuroVisual Medicine can help address this concern with the use of microprism lenses. These lenses can alleviate your symptoms by subtly correcting your eye alignment
Symptoms of BVD
BVD is caused by a misalignment between your eyes that makes it difficult for your eyes and brain to work together and provide you with clear, comfortable sight.
This condition, often undetected in regular eye exams, can result in a range of symptoms that affect daily living, whether you work at a 9–5 office job or you’re a top-of-your-game athlete.
These symptoms can reoccur periodically and may become more frequent if the condition is left unmanaged. Some of the most common BVD symptoms include:
- Double vision
- Dizziness and balance issues
- Headaches, especially after visual tasks
- Difficulty reading and concentrating
- Sensitivity to light
We understand how those issues can significantly affect day-to-day activities. Our approach to helping you address them is based on targeting the root cause of BVD, not just the symptoms.
How Does NeuroVisual Medicine Work?
The NeuroVisual Medicine journey starts with a survey and a comprehensive eye exam that helps us detect binocular vision dysfunction symptoms and diagnose the cause. By identifying minute misalignments in the eyes, we can develop a strategy suited to your needs. In some cases, we may even recommend additional techniques, including sports vision therapy and neuro optometric rehabilitation, depending on the source of your symptoms and your lifestyle.
Find Out if NeuroVisual Medicine Is Right for You
When you or your loved ones are struggling with symptoms that might be linked to BVD, you can take action. Explore how NeuroVisual Medicine can support your eyes and quality of life. Contact us at Beyond Vision LNK and book an eye exam to take the first step toward addressing your visual challenges. Remember, clear vision and comfortable eyes are not just about seeing well—but also living well. Let us help you achieve both with NeuroVisual Medicine.
Treating Eye Misalignment and Binocular Vision Dysfunction (BVD)
When your eyes are misaligned, your eyes are sending two different images to the brain which it has trouble merging. When the brain receives conflicting information from each eye, it strains the eye muscles to try and correct the misalignment – this causes the symptoms of BVD. A small percentage of patients with BVD have diplopia (or double vision) but most patients do not see double, yet they suffer from symptoms like migraines, dizziness, car sickness, and light sensitivity.
Experience the life-changing benefits of a treatment that targets the root cause—not just the symptoms. Discover how NeuroVisual Medicine at Beyond Vision LNK can help you see—and live—better.
What Are Prism Glasses?
Prism lenses are used to align the two images being sent to your brain, ‘tricking’ the brain into thinking the eyes are correctly aligned and reducing eye muscle strain. These lenses compensate for eye misalignment by redirecting the light rays to make the two images align. Prism is ground into lenses of your glasses with your regular prescription and doesn’t look any different than a normal pair of glasses, but they can relieve significant BVD symptoms.
Prism is measured and prescribed in prism diopters. Prism also has a direction: horizontal, vertical, or oblique. Historically, prism was prescribed in whole unit diopters (ex: 1 or 2 diopters) but these large increments of prism left patients feeling sick. New clinical research by the NeuroVisual™ Medicine Institute has determined much smaller amounts of prism are key to resolving patients’ subtle vision misalignment. Microprism is defined as prism lenses that are prescribed in fractional units of prism (ex: 0.25D, 0.75D, 1.25D, etc…).
What tests are performed during a NeuroVisual™ Exam?
A comprehensive binocular vision assessment is the best way to find out if you have binocular vision dysfunction. A NeuroVisual™ trained eye doctor can successfully diagnose BVD through a specialty binocular vision exam designed to assess your entire visual and physical system. In addition to standard eye exam tests, the eye doctor will assess the following:
- Eye movement
- Eye teaming and tracking
- Eye focusing
- Binocular fusion
- Balance and gait stability
- Posture and neck alignment
- Visual convergence
- Visual-spatial awareness
- Blood pressure and heart rate
- Depth perception
Fill Out the BVDQ
Start by filling out our binocular vision dysfunction questionnaire (BVDQ), a survey designed to uncover potential signs of BVD that may require treatment before you visit us for an appointment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do you know if you have binocular vision dysfunction?
Headaches and dizziness are the two most common symptoms associated with BVD. Patients with BVD tend to experience headaches in the front of the face or the temples. The dizziness is often described as feeling disoriented or lightheaded.
Other symptoms often accompany headaches and dizziness, including pain, difficulties with balance and coordination, reading, vision, and psychological symptoms.
- Pain Symptoms: Such as face ache, eye pain, or pain with eye movement (symptoms similar to sinus problems, migraines, TMJ problems); neck ache and upper back pain due to a head tilt (similar to spinal misalignment symptoms).
- Balance and Coordination Symptoms: Motion sickness, nausea, poor depth perception, unsteadiness while walking or drifting to one side while walking (“I’ve always been clumsy”), lack of coordination with symptoms being similar to those seen in patients with MS, patients who have experienced a stroke, an inner ear disorder, or Meniere’s Disease.
- Reading Symptoms: Difficulty with concentration (symptoms are similar to those experienced with ADHD), difficulty with reading and comprehension, skipping lines while reading, losing one’s place while reading, and words running together while reading (symptoms similar to those seen with a learning disability or dyslexia).
- Vision Symptoms: Blurred vision, double or overlapping vision, shadowed vision (symptoms similar to those seen in patients with MS), light sensitivity, difficulty with glare or reflection
- Psychological Symptoms: Feeling overwhelmed or anxious when in large contained spaces like malls or big box stores like Walmart, feeling overwhelmed or anxious in crowds or while driving (symptoms similar to those seen in patients with anxiety or agoraphobia or panic attacks).
If you have seen your primary care doctor or specialist and there has been no cause found for your symptoms, it could be BVD.
How do you fix binocular vision dysfunction?
Binocular Vision Dysfunction (BVD) is a serious eye condition where the eyes are misaligned, sending two different images to the brain. The brain struggles and overuses the eye muscles to merge these two different images into one clear image, causing symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, anxiety, motion sickness, and chronic neck pain.
BVD is treated by correcting eye misalignment with our specialized microprism lenses. They bend light in such a way that the misaligned images are once again realigned. Once this occurs, the eye muscles no longer have to strain, providing significant relief from headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, and all other symptoms.
Patients oftentimes report feeling noticeably better immediately. The average patient suffering from BVD will notice a 50% reduction of symptoms by the end of their first visit. Over the next several visits, the prism lenses are fine-tuned and continue to improve and eliminate the symptoms of BVD.
Can binocular vision dysfunction make it difficult to drive?
Yes, many patients with BVD experience difficulty with driving. This is because two common symptoms associated with the condition are dizziness and difficulty with depth perception, which alters your balance and equilibrium, making it difficult to see the road, signage, and nearby cars. Driving at night and anxiety while driving are also common symptoms for BVD patients.
How do you get BVD?
BVD can be the result of your facial asymmetry (where one eye is higher than the other), nerve or eye muscle abnormality (a common condition many people are born with), or it can develop as a result of stroke, concussion / brain injury, or a similar neurological disorder.
How is BVD diagnosed?
To determine if your symptoms are the result of Binocular Vision Dysfunction, we suggest you first see your primary care physician or specialist to rule out other causes for your symptoms. If no cause is found for the symptoms, then BVD might be the issue.
We ask you to fill out a specialized questionnaire designed to help diagnose those who have BVD.
You will be asked to complete a detailed Health History form.
An eye exam is performed to determine the need for correction of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism (a common imperfection in the eye’s curvature).
A specialized exam is performed (NeuroVisual™ Evaluation) to determine if vision misalignment is present.
If diagnosed with BVD, you will be fitted with a trial version of your new prescription during your exam. Most people notice a significant improvement in their symptoms within just a few minutes of putting on the trial lenses.
You can expect to spend approximately 3 hours in our office during your visit.
At what age can a person receive treatment for BVD?
Every person can receive treatment for BVD, as long as they are old enough to wear the specialized prism glasses and be able to tell (or show) the doctor how they feel. The youngest patient that has been helped was 8 months old. There is no upper age limit.
Can people with traumatic brain injury be helped?
Yes, but it is important that individuals with a traumatic brain injury be thoroughly evaluated by their doctor to rule out other causes of symptoms (including dizziness and headaches). If no other cause is found, our eye doctor can conduct a NeuroVisual™ Evaluation to determine if BVD is the cause of your symptoms. Even if you have experienced BVD symptoms for decades, you can still receive effective treatment for the condition.